Of no surprise to us, former council member Al Lipscomb’s grandson, LeVar “LD” Thomas, became the first challenger to battle freshman Tennell Atkins for his District 8 council seat when Thomas held a press conference at the E Zee Shop parking lot in South Dallas Friday morning. He was joined…
A decade ago, I interviewed Kevin Sullivan on his last day as the Dallas Mavericks’ vice president of communications, a job he’d held for 18 years — since the team’s inception in 1980. It seemed like a good idea to do another exit interview today, because Sullivan, pictured above with…
(Helping Dallas secure a convention center hotel earned DCVB President and CEO Phillip Jones a bonus larger than most people’s paychecks./Sam Merten) When Harlan Crow launched a petition drive to give Dallas voters a say in publicly financing a $525 million convention center hotel, proponents of the project cried foul,…
During this morning’s White House press briefing, press secretary Dana Perino laid out George Bush’s plans for January 20, which don’t involve heading directly to Dallas:President Bush will depart from Andrews Air Force Base and head to Midland, Texas, where he will participate in a welcome home event in Centennial…
With the exception of strolling over to Schutze’s office, it’s hard to find anyone in the media willing to criticize Mayor Tom, but Advocate publisher Rick Wamre is quickly rising up Leppert’s naughty list, and his blog yesterday on Back Talk might vault him up to the top spot. While…
Congress gets back to business on Tuesday, and if Texas Republican John Cornyn has anything to say about it, Minnesota will only have one senator seated. That’s because Cornyn, about to be installed as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, vowed today to keep Al Franken out of the…
So, one of those “Welcome Home, George & Laura” signs popped up in my neighborhood this week — because, right, he will totally see it and appreciate the awesome gesture. And since we are days away from George and Laura’s move to the ‘229, I thought it best to see…
Thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park who alerted me to Robert Jeffress’s appearance FOX & Friends yesterday. The guy really gets around; hope he sent Rick Warren a nice Christmas card. –Robert Wilonsky…
Brian Harkin Whilst searching city records, we stumbled upon council member Carolyn Davis’s semiannual campaign finance report. She filed the document November 17, which was nearly two months ahead of the January 15 deadline. Since Davis is hardly the model of punctuality when it comes to filing reports and she’s…
Friends of Unfair Park I like to call “Mom” and “Dad” suggested this photo op on Meaders Lane, where, from the looks of our drive last night, damned near every house between Preston and Inwood Roads appears to have one of these signs planted in the front yard — on…
While speaking with one of Mayor Tom Leppert’s consultants last month, I asked if Leppert was considering running for U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s seat. At that point, I heard he was contemplating the political leap from a few sources, but the response was something along the lines of: “Right…
Bishop T.D. Jakes My old friend Elvis Mitchell was in town on Friday, conducting an interview for a sequel to his 2008 star-studded documentary The Black List: Volume One, bought by HBO shortly before making its Sundance Film Festival in January. There will be two locals in the follow-up, which…
That’s what the Dallas County Commissioner tells Women’s Wear Daily today — pardon me? — in what’s likely to be an endless stream of stories like this till the day George and Laura move back to their old stomping grounds. Says the soft-spoken Democrat, “It’s bad enough he’s from Texas,…
10. Mayor Tom Leppert presents a Mavs jersey to Mayor Huang Xingguo during his trip to China…
Governor Rick Perry sent us a Christmas card — awful nice of him, though I wish I could tell where he went to college. So, in the spiriting of giving, we figured we’d share — along with his list of who’s been naughty but who he was nice enough to…
Courtesy the Obama-Biden Transition Project — which I keep confusing with the Alan Parsons Project — this photo from Friday’s press conference during which the president-elect named former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk the chief U.S. trade representative. Already made it my wallpaper. And Valentine’s Day card. Still, though, need a…
Hey, hey, hey — look who landed on CBS’ The Early Show this morning to talk about President-elect Barack Obama’s controversial (no, really?) decision to choose Rick Warren as the dude to deliver the opening prayer at the inauguration. Why, it’s our old pal Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church…
On the morning their pops gave the okee-doke to a $17-billion auto industry bailout, Jenna Hager and Barbara Bush tell People they’re, well, kinda surprised by how Dubya was received during his stay in the White House. And far as both are concerned, they’re ready for Dad to move back…
Captain Ronald Tiberius Kirk will be promoted to admiral this morning, after which time he will have to deal with the Trade Federation, no easy task there. Hunh. I feel like I’ve confused some things here. President-elect Barack Obama will name First Buddy Ron Kirk the chief U.S. trade representative…
Earlier today, we posted the comment from former mayoral candidate (and current candidate for Dallas County judge) Sam Coats regarding the death of Jennifer Gale. Gale didn’t do as well as Coats in the 2007 battle for Dallas mayor, but she was able to finish ahead of John Cappello and…
See, told you: No way former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk would be named secretary of anything by President-Elect Barack Obama — all that lobbying, yech. (Or not.) Nope, ever since Monday it’s looked more and more likely that First Buddy Kirk would be tapped for something a little less high-profile:…
A Friend of Unfair Park, who’s clearly in the holiday spirit, suggested we head back over to the White House’s “A Red, White and Blue Christmas 2008” page, if only to check out local (and regional) pols’ choice of ornaments hanging from the White House Christmas Tree. And, sure enough,…
